Commenting on Comments~Part 1
I enjoyed all the comments that came from the blog. ”Writing – What is Easy, What is Hard.” Mary Harwell Sayler, doyenne of Christian Poets and Writers asked writers to tell her what they find easy about writing and what they find difficult. My bottom line answer was that I found blogs easy, but isolated spots in my novels are as hard to write as good pie crust is to … [Read more...]
Finding Our Way Back
When our children were young, Bill and I loved to go camping at the springs and when the kids became teens, we took one Sunday off each month to camp, because Renie and Billy, and Bill and I were all so busy we didn’t have time to be together, or to talk. Yes, we missed church once a month, but we usually had a sweet service of our own, and everything turned out fine in … [Read more...]
Writing? Don’t Make It a Big Deal
Julia Cameron in The Right to Write, tells us emphatically that we will write better if we don’t made a big deal out of it. When we first take up writing seriously, we decide we’ll write perfectly. Ms. Cameron says that’s a mistake. We must be willing to write badly at least in our first drafts and then go on from there. She says wanting to write perfectly has kept many people … [Read more...]
